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...good return. It costs about $10,000 to house the average prisoner for a year, and with inmate population expanding and taxpayers' tolerance shrinking, legislators are loath to spend any more than they absolutely must to keep their penal systems going. Thus it is a boon when a state's prison industries can show an increase in sales like that in Massachusetts: from $200,000 in 1972 to $3.4 million last year. States can benefit in yet another way, by obtaining goods and services from their prisons and thereby reducing purchasing costs...
...cancellations proved a boon for ordinary Soviets, who got the unused tickets. They were as boisterous as old Brooklyn Dodger fans, though relying on ear-splitting whistles instead of clanging cowbells. Countrymen were cheered lustily, as long as they were winning, and foreign rivals were jeered, with gusto. The racket was deafening for visiting pole vaulters, who are accustomed to the polite silence accorded a golfer bending over his putt. Wladislaw Kozakiewicz of Poland finally shut up the unruly crowds with a world record (18 ft. 11 ½in.), then defiantly shook his arm at them. Said he: "The public...
...debutante just last summer, she had a nationwide coming-out party that cost close to $600,000. But alas, her two-bit shape did her in. The Susan B. Anthony dollar, heralded as a boon to bank tellers and store clerks, turned out to be a bane. Looking and feeling too much like a quarter, she may fare less well than the poker-chip-size Eisenhower dollar and the Jefferson $2 bill. Production of the nickel and copper-alloyed coin has been "temporarily postponed," says the U.S. Mint. Of the 846 million Susan B.s already minted, only 300 million...
...area where the news was all good or all bad. "Until two years ago, you couldn't sue city hall at all," says Yale Law Professor Paul Gewirtz. Since then, a series of decisions, including several this term, has virtually shredded the doctrine of governmental immunity. A boon to citizens, perhaps, but a threat to already overloaded dockets. In Owen vs. City of Independence, the court refused to allow municipalities to duck certain civil rights suits by trotting out the defense that their employees had acted in "good faith." Then, in Maine vs. Thiboutot, the Justices ruled that under...
Studying sleep patterns, Psychiatrist David Kupfer of the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic in Pittsburgh made an intriguing discovery. Though such popular antidepressants as the tricyclics have been a boon to the mentally ill, they usually take several weeks to produce results. If the initial drug does not seem to work, the doctor may begin trying others-until there is nothing left but shock therapy. Kupfer, on the other hand, found that even when there is no apparent change in a patient's mood, the drug almost immediately delays the onset of dreaming...